Political Quotes

“I intend to support the legislation with grant aid to the victims of the earthquake in California, and I do so for several reasons. In 1972 President Nixon personally, during the great disaster that befell Pennsylvania during the Agnes storm that made the Susquehanna River rage and there was property damage and lives disrupted for a long time, President Nixon and the Congress came to the aid of Pennsylvania then. That would be reason enough for me to now support the Californians who back in that era through their Representatives in the Congress aided Pennsylvania. That is one thing. But, secondly, I also regard, as a Member of this body, that natural disasters and national security are the two basic reasons that we serve in this body. Everything else is second or third, or tertiary, level, but national security and national disasters must bring about the wide area of support in the Congress of the United States. But I am troubled about another thing.”